Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry (December 14th 1866 - September 9th 1934), Critic painter and art British , belonged to the Bloomsbury Group. The historian of art Kenneth Clark saw in him the successor of John Ruskin. Virginia Woolf published its Biographie in 1940.

Origins

Fry de Bristol

A mythical genealogy made go up Fry of Bristol to the King Edouard III via the prestigious line of the Beaufort, of which they were parents. Always it is that this family of Quakers successfully found fortune about the middle of the 18th century while launching out in the industry of the Chocolat. From modest a grocer of village was born soon an industrial empire which included/understood, in addition to the initial firm, the manufacture of the Porcelaine, a station of Pompage and the exploitation of the first Railroads. From generation to generation, Fry counted in their rows more than one deputy, more baronnet, but also, faithful to their religious convictions, more than one social reformer. Philanthropist S, they also took part in the foundation of the Université of Bristol-board.

The father of Roger Fry, Sir Edward Fry (1827-1918), was the second of four brothers whose elder one directed the Chocolaterie while itself, lawyer of formation, occupied the judging functions with the Court of Appeal, before becoming international referee with the Court of $the Hague, ancestor of the the International Court of Justice. Administrator of the University College of London, member of the Royal Society as a Zoologist amateur, it had married Mariabella Hodgkin, sister of the Historien Thomas Hodgkin.

Youth and maturity

Born with London in the district from Highgate the December 14th 1866, Roger Fry follows his studies in Clifton College of Bristol, public school where will succeed to him, two generations later, Sir Michael Redgrave and Trevor Howard. Then, with the King' S College of the University of Cambridge, it specializes in the Natural science and belonged to the Secret society of the Cambridge Apostles.

At the time of several voyages to Paris, in Provence and Italy, it starts to paint Paysage S. Later, it will carry out different Portrait S and Autoportrait S.

In 1896, it marries Helen Coombe, which will give him two children, Pamela and Julian. But Helen suffers from mental disorders which will lead to its internment in 1910, date from which Roger Fry will only raise his daughter and his son. In 1911, it has a connection impassioned with Vanessa Bell, painter and decorator, sister of Virginia Woolf and mother of Quentin Bell. Then, in 1913, Vanessa Bell leave it for another painter: Duncan Grant .

After a connection with two young artists, Nina Hammett and Josette Coatmellec, it becomes acquainted with Helen Maitland Anrep, former wife of the mosaic painter on Boris Anrep. This one, near to the Bloomsbury Group, is a former student of the Académie of the Large Thatched cottage to Montparnasse. Roger Fry and Helen Maitland Anrep will never separate.

Career

Art critic

Roger Fry collaborates in the Athenaeum as from 1901 and takes part in 1903 in the foundation of the Burlington Magazine with Bernard Berenson. From 1906 to 1910, it spends four years to the the United States, where it off works with the Metropolitan Museum Art of New York. It is at the time of this stay that he discovers the work of Cézanne and ignores primitive Italian little by little, to the profit of the painters French of the end of the 19th century.

Of return in England, it organizes in London, in 1910 and 1912, two Exposition S of post-impressionist art (term of which he is the author) which exerts a considerable influence on the taste of the public, while being coldly accommodated by criticism.

Two of its tests, Vision and Design (1920) and Transformations (1926), will also contribute to make discover contemporary French painting.

In 1933, it occupies the pulpit Slade of teaching of the Art schools to the Université of Cambridge.

The Omega workshops

Works

Vision and Design , 1920
Transformations , 1926
Cézanne: With Study off His Development , 1927
Henri Matisse , 1930
French Art , 1932
Reflections one British Painting , 1934

Sources

University off Bristol-board History

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